Chords for Clairo "Bags" Official Lyrics & Meaning | Verified

Music being my full-time job now, it's so incredible, but so much of it is things that
you are yet to discover and things that are yet to happen to you that you don't know about yet.
But there's beauty in uncertainty.
I think now that my life is so up in the air all the time, I'm like, okay, maybe I'll never
see that person again, but that's okay.
Trying to plan anything _ _ _ is like, there's no point.
Life just happens to you.
That sounds so deep.
I'm just like, that's just how I feel.
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[N] This song is definitely about one of my first experiences with a girl.
It's definitely about me learning to be comfortable in a place of the unknown.
So Rossim and I met a long time ago and he was a fan of my song Flaming Hot Cheetos.
I went to LA for a month to start writing the record.
I decided to make the album with him and it was one of the best decisions I'd ever made.
I started bringing songs like Bags to Rossim, songs that I had written on my own.
It was really nice to sit down with Rossim and really flesh out the songs that meant
a lot to me. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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This song starts off with me sitting on the couch with another person saying that every
second counts is really important because when you like someone, you don't know if they
like you back, you feel like time is ticking so loudly and you feel like every minute,
every second _ is almost wasted because you're not kissing them or you're not expressing
how you feel to them.
And saying that I don't want to talk to you anymore.
I don't want to have any of these _ random conversations that don't mean anything that just fill the
space in between us.
We're just talking about something random because we both have something else on our minds. _ _ _ _
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I think this person and I would joke around a lot.
We would call each other like random nicknames.
You can call me by the name I gave you yesterday is not only talking about the nicknames but
alludes to call me by your name because it's about a girl.
Little gay insert there. _ _ _ _ _ _
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I'm only watching TV with you just to be next to you.
I don't want to be watching TV but I'm here because you're here. _
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_ I think especially when you're having your first experience with a girl, you read into
things a lot more.
I don't know if they like girls at all, let alone me.
And we're really good friends.
So it's like how does that even work? _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ This song is definitely emphasizing us sitting on the couch, us not really talking about
how we feel, us just existing together next to each other is way better than me expressing
how I feel and it going sour.
Just being next to you is a lot better than you walking out of the door and me being left
alone without this person. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ Mitchell's Joni Mitchell.
So pour your glass of wine, Mitchell.
Joni Mitchell told me I'll be just fine.
It's an allusion to A Case of You by Joni Mitchell.
And me and this person have been driving around listening to Joni Mitchell.
A love experience as _ spilled wine kind of _ _ makes sense to me.
Especially when expressing your emotions, it's kind of like a wine stain that you can't
really get out after it's been spilled. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ I think as of recently, I've definitely valued taking things slow.
I don't want to scare you _ with my emotions, even though they're, because you know, they're so intense.
I don't want to cut corners.
_ I don't want to jump to conclusion.
I don't want to _ _ skip steps.
What if we're supposed to be friends at first and then like years from now, it's supposed
to be a certain way.
I don't want to take things too fast for it to just burn out. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I'm melting in your mouth. _ _ _
_ Pardon my emotions.
I should probably keep it all to myself.
So it's like this balance between it's like, do I tell you or is it going to turn out where
I feel bad about expressing my emotions and I should have never said anything to begin with.
No, you'd make fun of me. _ _
_ _ No, you'd make fun of me.
It went the exact way I thought it would.
She made fun of me and it was just like, all right, let's just move on.
I think we both had like some emotions, but I mean, like we're really good friends and
I think it's good to like set those boundaries and know that your friendship is more important
than anything like that.
Doesn't mean I can't appreciate those [Em] moments.
Doesn't mean I can't go back and think about those moments very fondly, which is why I
love music, why I love songs.
Because they're like just little capsules of time and moments that no one can take away. _ _
[Eb] _ [Em] It's a really sweet song.
It's really like pure.
And I think that's what I wanted to emphasize on is like my emotions in this song and the
record are